Yer a harder woman than I, Beth!
Um, I'll get really weird and disavow my own music and help blow the death knell for Salman Rushdie?
I think we skeert the de Kere boys away....
What'd Cat Stevens do to Mr. Padma?
Just talking out me arse-whole like some kida damn liberal.
He started growing abeard in 1979,changed his name and quit singing for money.
I miss Cat. He was beautiful! That hair, those eyes.
Ooooh baby, baby it's a wild world...
You never had to see his talent atrophy, like so many of his peers. And it wasn't because he died young, like so many other of his peers.
Oh I know he became Muslim and everything but didn't realize he had anything to do with the fatwa.
I don't like Ms. Padma because she's made Mr. Padma a stupid lovestruck average (or below-) novelist. You miss Cat, I miss the author of "The Satanic Verses." "Fury" sucked.
I read Satanic Verses over the course of three days on a remote Spanish beach with no people people but the gf around and "wild" horses grazing on the hillsides. Good times.
(Though there were the shadowy figures passing packages between small boats at night.)
Well, Cat had curly long hair. Rushdie's got that comb-over.
Oh, he's godawful looking.
When are you guys traveling next, pd? I just passed up a chance for Paris. I'm kinda annoyed about it.
(I would usually rein myself in at this point with the tangents already but don't you think Lusatian kinda sorta asked for it?)
Well, we just spent a week laying on a beach in South Carolina. Doesn't really count in my book, though. We've got the airmiles and somewhere to stay for a trib to the Caribbean, but no time to go, so I dunno. I don't consider that we've been on a proper trek in six years, though, so we're getting pretty accustomed.
(I really want to go to Oz, but wifey is afraid of sharks, crocodiles, snakes, and dying of thirst, so mebbe not.)
Yes, Soz - he lay down and begged for it!
Patio - for smeg's sake! This scary animals thing is ok as a joke, but really, you never SEE the damn things!!!!
It is worth your life to look at them, pd. Don't go.
The scary animals and dry desert and 300-foot gum trees are the things I want to see. Oh, and I want to go to Melbourne and turn right from the far left lane. That sounds fun.
Pity 'bout Paris, soz. When I lived in Chicago, I used to torture myself receiving updates on low fares from O'Hare to Amsterdam (my favorite city, with New York and London close behind). Very cheap, if you can manage to logistics.
Yeah, the logistics are the rub.
Australia would be great.
There is this sort of dreamy hazy idea hovering just out of reach that when hubby settles down with this professor thing we can take a month out of the year to travel, every year... we have standing invitations to Australia and India, among many, many other places (those are two I'm especially interested it.)
Argh, what's the cold-shower equivalent for wanderlust?
Well, you won't find the big trees and the dry desert together.
I grew up in the American West. If you can drive from one place to another in two days, they are close.
Can't drive to the big trees.
